SQL Server: All About SQL Server Statistics : Consolidated post
Statistics is the one of the important factor which helps the optimizer to choose the right execution plan.At the same...
2013-07-10
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Blog Posts
Find out orphan database file on disk
Sometimes you detach databases, or you delete a database which is in restoring status, the data and log file will...
2013-07-09
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PCI Compliance Presentation on July 17, 2013
Next week I’ll be doing a new presentation about PCI compliance – aka dealing with credit cards – online (follow this link...
2013-07-09
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Power BI for Office 365
Announced at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 is Power BI for Office 365:
Power BI for Office 365 is a cloud-based business intelligence...
2013-07-09
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PowerSQL – Find OS and Memory Usage Details – Multi Server Script – No Input files
Multi Server script to find OS and Memory details. It doesn’t require a text file as its input but you...
2013-07-09
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Security Questions: Prioritizing Security
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’sTraining on the T’s, I...
2013-07-09
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for July 2013
I have gone through and made some minor updates and bug fixes for all of my SQL Server Diagnostic Information...
2013-07-09
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SQL Server: Part 4 : All About SQL Server Statistics : Auto Update Statistics Threshold - Importance of Manual statistics maintenance
In the last post, we have discussed about the auto create and auto update property of the statistics. Do we...
2013-07-09 (first published: 2013-07-02)
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SQL Server: Part 5 : All About SQL Server Statistics : How to Detect outdated Statistics ?
In the last post, we have discussed about the auto update statistics threshold and concluded that auto updated statistics threshold are good enough to get optimal performance in some workload. In...
2013-07-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #44 - Second Chances
So, it’s Tuesday and its that time again for T-SQL Tuesday. We’re at the 44th entry which means it’s been...
2013-07-09
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Blogs
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
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